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Josh Allen on expectations this season, AFC rivalries and married life<\/p>\n
Josh Allen talks all things NFL including AFC rivalries, his mindset ahead of the season and his partnership with Snickers.<\/p>\n
The NFL’s first game streamed on YouTube featured the Los Angeles Chargers defeating the Kansas City Chiefs in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil.The main broadcast team included Rich Eisen and Kurt Warner, while an alternate stream featured internet personality “IShowSpeed.”The NFL’s partnership with YouTube is part of a broader strategy to engage younger audiences and expand its global presence.<\/p>\n
Hope you enjoyed the Mr. Beast show \u2013 excuse me \u2013 the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> taking on the Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> on YouTube Friday evening on the device of your choosing.\u00a0<\/p>\n If you were lucky enough to be watching on YouTube TV, at least the option to rewind and fast-forward existed. For us mere mortals the pause button was the lone form of agency during the three-hour broadcast that ended with the Chargers victorious, 27-21, from S\u00e3o Paulo.\u00a0<\/p>\n As far as first tries go \u2013 even within the seeming absurdity of \u201cThe Shield\u201d airing a game on YouTube and fully leaning into the content-brained shenanigans that comes with the territory of spotlighting creators with large followings on the platform \u2013 YouTube and parent company Google have to be pleased with how the proceedings went.\u00a0<\/p>\n The good news for YouTube\/Google is that the basics were done well. The picture was clear. Nobody on social media reported outages or issues with the quality of the stream. The scorebug was simple without being minimalist (like FOX\u2019s new one), although the characters of the team abbreviations seemed stretched and the font was sans-serif-adjacent. The camera work ahead of Patrick Mahomes\u2019 miraculous fourth-down completion with three minutes left in the fourth quarter left something to be desired, but that\u2019s not a YouTube-based issue. NBC Sports loaned production assistance for the show to give it a professional feel.<\/p>\n As far as the halftime show goes, shoutout Karol G. Some fans reported audio issues during her show. But it\u2019s worth noting the halftime countdown clock inside the stadium was paused because the smoke from the performance wasn\u2019t clearing in time for the second half to start.\u00a0<\/p>\n Rich Eisen isn\u2019t my first choice to broadcast any football game, ever, no knock on his hosting abilities. But we might not have a better line from a booth all year than his “interestingly wide right\u201d comment after Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker missed an extra point in the third quarter to keep the Chiefs behind 13-12. (If you don\u2019t get it, well, you\u2019re not gonna.) He and Kurt Warner have become the soundtrack of NFL international games and there are worse options. Also better ones.\u00a0<\/p>\n If the alt-cast with personality \u201cIShowSpeed\u201d \u2013 who actually did his day job instead of challenging professional athletes to races \u2013 was more your \u2026 speed \u2026 then more power to you. The host declared the Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> as his favorite team and Lamar Jackson, of the Baltimore Ravens<\/a> and an AFC North rival of his squad, his favorite player. Times certainly have changed. Marshawn Lynch being the best, however, carries over no matter the continent or viewing platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Los Angeles-based pregame set was distracting with the chairs and former NFL quarterback Derek Carr left a lot to be desired during his telestrator demonstration (the Jon Gruden impression was decent at least). Peter Overzet, a fantasy-centric creator, was a bright spot during the pregame show (his joke about being let out of his mom\u2019s basement played well).\u00a0<\/p>\n What didn\u2019t work was the emphasis on YouTube itself during the pregame show. Kay Adams is a pro, but when \u201cDeestroying\u201d and \u201cHayleyybaylee\u201d joined her and Cam Newton on the desk, it all felt a little too self-promotional and contrived. The point of the debut should have been to familiarize NFL fans to a new platform, not trying to inject a brand and philosophy into the pregame show. Newton can hang out with Stephen A. Smith on “First Take,” smoke his cigars on the podcast he posts on YouTube, but he probably should remain far, far away from the actual analysis-driven formats real fans desire.<\/p>\n Mr. Beast\u2019s \u201cchallenge\u201d between a Chiefs fan and Chargers fan who went viral a couple of years ago during another primetime broadcast felt contrived. The Chiefs fan being shot out of a cannon \u2013 they actually did this with the NFL’s blessing \u2013 was symbolic of the entire idea. Deestroying\u2019s sideline report in the fourth quarter was just a meme, a \u201csix seven\u201d joke.\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s worth noting that I\u2019m probably not the target demographic \u2013 \u201csix seven\u201d has been a thing for months and I still have absolutely no idea what it means \u2013 for this type of experiment and broadcast. But this is part of the NFL\u2019s effort to appeal to younger fans and stay ahead of the curve. This is where sports on screens is going, eventually. Get used to it. Or don\u2019t. And remain in the venn diagram of confused and blissfully ignorant.\u00a0<\/p>\n The NFL will cash the checks all the same while growing its global footprint on the way to world domination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Allen on expectations this season, AFC rivalries and married life Josh Allen talks all things NFL including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[1338,62,159,3050,76,5462,1742,4851,69523,49,48,69522,10391,1740,1329,69521,29895,1322,75,527,192,23067,69524,18813,31169,1321,1465,2561,18817,2314,30156,18816,2211,1337,1348,8818,47,2349,2034,44,514,8827,3499,3503,927,10232,1333,2042,8817,2218,5457,82,865,1320,1339,39,1335,1062],"class_list":["post-126375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-affiliate","tag-ai","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-arts","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-bengals","tag-butker","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carr","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-content","tag-derek","tag-derek-carr","tag-enabled","tag-entertainment","tag-football","tag-google","tag-google-inc","tag-gruden","tag-harrison","tag-harrison-butker","tag-highlights","tag-hub","tag-inc","tag-jackson","tag-jon","tag-jon-gruden","tag-lamar","tag-lamar-jackson","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-mahomes","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hub","tag-online","tag-online-video","tag-opinion","tag-opinion-content","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-patrick","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-ravens","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-story","tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled","tag-top-stories","tag-u0026","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}